Divination is an Intimate Affair takes place in the private havens of sorcerers and in the minuscule distance that separates you from your phone every time you read your horoscope of the day…

In private one-on-one sessions of twenty minutes, Danae Tapia invited us to experiment with a hybrid method to access oracular knowledge, using a digital witchcraft ‘oracle bot’ and actual cards of the Marseille Tarot. This pairing allowed us to take advantage both from grammar-generative coding tools and from tarot as a narrative mystical system dating as far as the 13th century.

The experience involved insights on: arcana, archetypes, automated poetry, technomancy and the many strategies we can activate in order to make the world an enchanted place.